Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Tysons, VA. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 5th in Tysons runs mild, with an average high of 64° and low of 41° across 85 years of records. But the date has a wild range — it's hit as warm as 86° in 2012 and dipped to a hard freeze of 24° just one year later in 2013. There's about a 1-in-3 chance of rain today, but snow is off the table.
Tysons has seen genuine extremes over its century of records — from a brutal -3° on February 5, 1996, to a scorching 100° on August 18, 2015, a spread of 103 degrees. The wettest single day on record dumped 7.1 inches during a September storm in 1966, and a February 1983 snowstorm buried the area under 23 inches in one shot.
Tysons peaks in the heat of mid-July, when average highs reach 86°, and bottoms out in late January with highs around 40°. The wettest stretch falls in early-to-mid July, averaging over an inch of rain per week — summer storms are a daily reality here. If you're chasing comfortable weather, April, May, and October all hit the mid-60s with far less humidity.